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The Laurens Advertiser.
$i.^o Per Year in Advance.
THE BORDER LINE 1
BY M0BTI3IER 0. WILCOX.
Copyright, 1901. by Mortimer O. WUcox
URING the South African
nisis of 1808 au Ameri
can named Phillips tooli
tho night train foi
Klerksburg, near th*
Transvaal frontler.
A week before Phil
lips hud Been tho "' SoM
Reef City" shivering In tbo panic of an
expected war. m* thoughts as h?
Bland out of th* car window may bnv?
gone back' bitterly to JohaunesburK. ,,;
the- rldgC Which lias mado BO many sc.r
rows, and i?is own failure theru. Clutch
ed iu the hand, however, he bold a tele?
gram from his partner, tturton, ami
this be rend: "Com? up t?> Klerksburfl
next train. Big tiling possible here/'
Around him men wen- arguing heated
ly in various dialects as to where Jou
bert would strike llrst, what would
happen to tho ultlnndors and when it
would begin to happen. The train ran
on hour after hour, it came t<> u st<>;i
at last and discharged Its passenger.-)
into the excited, (piestloulng crowds
which Ullod tho streets of Klerktd)iirg.
It was almost midnight, but liiere wa
ne qtilol in the towns of the border.
A largo young Ungllshmnii slopped
out of lliu shadows and touched Phil
lips on the elbow. "Here yon arc." he
drawled. ?"It's late, but you mustn't
Bleep yet, Jack. You're expected."
"What Is It anyway?" asked Phillip-;.
"I don't know." replied the other,
"and I know ;it the same time that it Is
something worth our while." lie was
Blower In hin mental processes than the
American, and he now fell into deep re
flection. "It was Atherton who told
mo to get you le-rr. Appears that there
is something being plauued. Com?
along."
They turned Into quieter streets,
walked for BOine distance and came to
a house. The front of this was dark
ened, but there were lights at the rear
ami as they approached nioro than one
man came out and hurried away. Pon
ton held n low conversation with some
one at the door and then returned tti
find his friend.
"They want to sec you alone In
there." he explained, "and I'm to wait."
Phillips went forward. A servant
ushered him through tho house ami
bowed him into a lighted room. Three
men were seated around a table there
upon which lay spread a man of South
Africa. In a smaller room behind Phil
lips could hear telegraph Instrument!)
clicking feverishly, and now and then
n message would be brought out and
placed upon the table.
"London seems to be getting excited."
one of the three remarked.
They did not embarrass Phillips by
too close a scrutiny, but they were tak
ing note of him. "Sit down, won't
you?" said one of them, a big man.
Tho speaker leaned back almost shyly
In his chair and turned his drowsy gray
eyes upon another who looked like an
ex-army officer, "You state the case
Atherton," he said.
"Hem!" observed the latter. "Well.
Mr. Phillips, I suppose you wotdd not
be unwilling to accept of a good oppor
tunlty."
Phillips smiled grimly. "I rather need
to," he replied.
"Ah, yes. Well, no offense, you
know, but we have been led to believe
that you are a?hem?rather a wild
young thing."
The American's square Jaw tightened,
and be arose. "You might have tele
graphed that Information." he observ
ed.
"No. Sit down, please," said the big
man, "and hear us through." There
was a kind of fascination In his man
ner difficult to explain.
"You know." continued Atherton. his
eyes upon tho table and speaking as If
by rote, "whether this country is in a
healthy condition now. You are from
Johannenburg and also know how the
Ultlanders are being treated. Here In
KlerkBburg we bellet? that war is In
evitable and that tho sooner It comes
the better for us all. There are, how
ever, peoplo who cannot understand
this situation, and they advise delay."
He nodded, perhaps unconsciously, to
ward the room where the telegraph In
struments were clicking.
"Not so very many miles from hero,
at a point which your friend Burton
knows, there la a camp of the border
police. It lies about two miles from
tho frontier line of the Transvaal, and
ten miles on the other sldo the Boers
hove also a camp. Very good. Now 1
need not i>o!nt out to you that Africa
Is like a bin of gunpowder and that It
needs only a spark to set It aQre. Here
Is where that spark can be struck."
Ho put his linger upon the map. "Just
as this point, over the line, is the farm
of a Boer named Zwager. He Is an old
Dutch rhinoceros, ready enough for
trouble. It wotdd be very easy for any
one who went there?any one who was
rather wild and Irresponsible?to pre
clpltato n quarrel. II would not need
extreme measures?-a mere quarrel,
with perhaps a little mlsusage, and the
Boers there In camp would do the rest,
for they would attack the border police
as certainly as we sit her<?. After that
some history would probably be made."
Yoio-.g Phillips whistled thoughtfully,
"'?.'s rather too rich for us," ho said,
"and not the nicest Job, especially see
lug that I'm an American. No; 1 guess
not."
Tho big man raised himself up from
his chair. The lamplight fell upon him
redly as he stood, tall as a giant, above
the table where lay tho map of South
Africa. "An American," he said. "That
Is all the better. -Americans aro men
of our own blood, and this movement
Is for every man who knows what
progress means. It Is war which must
C? IUO, hihi la IhiH world we must look
ug'y facts in tho faco People who aro
ftfraid to do this say to me: 'But it will
be tOO clangorous,' they say to mo 'It is
wrong' But I say to bem- 'Wo must
'.(.ok facts in tho faco. Th ; Boers are
iiow arming with Mausccr rillos.' I say
to tl.om : My dear good people, I ad
miro your scruples, but rem? mhor the
ugly fact of those Mausor rills ' Ho
membor that, and then if you sg^ec
that war must como at last tell me
win thor dolay will not mean 10 times
as many livos and 100 times tho troas
ure ' A united Africa; that is my idea,
an Afric? free for thu Anglo H^xou
from Capo Town to tho Zambezi."
Tho dreamy gray eyoe hid lighted
up ; tho words came faster and faster
in tho glow of tho great I lea and as
ho spoko there breathed Out of thb
ma" something mysterious and won
derf>il, as out of untithoincd dop'hs, a
epii t which could ??? iff< n tho hearts of
oiin r m?n anu dilvv tkoin foiward
reckless of barriers. Youug Pbllllpt
gazed tit Illlli, ami the cold BUSplclOI
lnelled out of Ills face.
"1 gUCSS, inaylie," said lie slowly
"that, after all, I am a wild young
thing."
Tho leader smiled. "1 thought so,"
said In-, "and a man we are glad t<
know, a man with a mind of Ids own
Well. It Is good to meet them OIIOO In
awhllo and to know that, after all, they
do generally got the dantrer
glory and the prollt." He dropped on
the belgllt8 to BOber matter of fact.
"Such men," lie remarked, "don't do
things for nothing. What shall we
make tin' figure?"
"on, I guess," replied Phillips, "that
if Burton and I can put this through
we can trust you lor the rest of it."
The hlg man glunced at the other
men, and a little laugh all around
showed their appreciation of how Phil?
lips had risen to his chance. "Always
did like the way you Americans could
gl'USp a point," the leader said and
shook hands. A moment later Ather
tou brought in another telegram and
remarked. "People up home display In
creasing ugltutlou."
"Hah!" said the hlg man. with an
other laugh and crumpled up the tele
gram.
The day alter Burton and Phillips
rode out of Klcrkshurg and turned
their horses eastward. They left the
railroad line upon their left, and as
they struck Into the open veldt and
Saw around them the wide circle of
earth and sky their spirits gtiyly rose
to this adventure. Darkness found
them still six miles from the camp oi
the border police, but Burton knew the
ground, and they pushed forward. Fi
nally, when It was grown so dark that
they hardly could see the ears of their
horses, both pulled up suddenly, for
from the veldt upou their right they
heard a voice as of one In distress.
"Who arc you?" Phillips called.
There was no reply, hut a llglirc arose
from the darkened plain and stood
tottering before them. They swuug
themselves out of the saddle, and a
match llared in Burton's hand. "Ap
pears to he a kind of a mail," he drawl
ed, alter cynical inspection.
"Cein'n," came from the figure,
"senge me If I am not quite m'self."
His words, like his high silk hat. ap
peared to have been crumpled up bj
the catastrophe. "Medelons all smash
ed, h?rst- gone oft; 'bnndoncd, you see,
on the lonely plain." He lurched upon
Burton's neck. "ScilgO me." he wailed
Cheerfully, "but 1 am so drunk!"
"You are. Indeed." assented the oth
er, "ami that's your horse about 20 feet
from hero." It was so, indeed. Al
though the patent medicines hud all
boon smashed, the faithful steed re
mained. Hi" seemed to ghllice at them
witli a look of resignation and BUU
iu I tied without comment whde they
hoisted the rider up again.
"Might as well take 111 in along," said
Burton In disgust. "Appears to he
pickled well, hut ought not. you know,
to remain out here." The rescued man
tumbled off now and then like the
White Knight In "Alice." hut by rid
ing one on each side of him they gen
erally caught him In midair. Proceed
ing thus, they r.eached tlie camp of the
border police and wen.* greeted with
Ironical applause. Burton knew most
oi the men; a letter which he brought
made theill KtlH more welcome. They
ate and afterward among their hosts
lay hack at ease uround the enmpOrc.
Invisible horses champed and shuttled
upon the plain around them, the troop
ers smoked and looked up at the
Watching stars, and presently fur lack
of something better they began to
have inn with the patent medicine
man.
He stood up in the firelight, which
dickered upon his silly face, well pleas
ed to have such an audience. "Oein'n,"
said lie, "don't mock a fellow man.
These friends of mine, who Brought
me out of danger, who knows where
they thenihhelves may be tomorrow
Who knows what peril lies befon
them? Then. I shay, don't muck i
victim of circumstances, It's wrony
geln'n."
" That's right," somebody si id. "W.sl
that the victim had left us seine of Id
olrcuinstanees, though. I'm thirsty."
But the orator, now III the in >rnli/.ill
lino, soared to still loftier heights am
touched affairs of state. "Thisli war,'
be cried; "oh, my, what nn lnh|ult>
You young men pant after fame
fortune, but Its-lit to my riper wisdom
For again I shay It's wrong, gcni'ii."
"Wrong. Is It?" said the captain o
the police, lie thoughtfully blew sum
tobacco smoke at the stars, and Iben In
. , deliberately, as one w ho not- n
often air his views. There wtis a Hill,
uneasy stir among the men around Ii I i
for It Was to these he spoke. "The Iii;:
ger who has had a Boer over him bin
eat In hell, but he isn't In much woi
ease than the lilt landers down yondi r
Englishmen (rented like dogs and oi
land which ought to hi* Knglnlid's
Wrong, is It? Have (he Boors kepi
their word with usV Wrong! Well
my good friend, I won In! merely polui
out to you that a war which wotilc
change dial government, such n win
would give liberty and security to ev
cry man, w hite and black, ill South Af
rlea; would give another solid country
to the race that can point n> Its recon
and say, I leave things better than I
found them.' I would just merely point
out to you these trilling facts and ask
you, 'Why is n war like that wrong?' '
The patent medicine man had Blood
appalled, with Ilia mouth wide open
during this speech. He staggered back
wnrd m.w. tripped over a saddle and
went down with .'ill on hoard. Rollllig
helpless upon the plain, he hurled up at
the sky, like the proud mother In tin
Joke,
"Because It Is. Ho there."
In the morning the two adventurers
had a last word with tho caplaln and
then mounted their horses. I'he med
Clno man, who wns now sober II not
sensible, wished to go with them, but
this offer was rejected. They rode to a
llttlo eminence and stopped. They were
on the border line, the danger line
which needed only to be crossed i>v
fighting parties to mean a war. A soi
Itary falcon hovered high III the untar
Dlsbod blue, and befon* them stretched
Ike Transvaal, Its veldt as yellow as a
sea of gold, old Zwngor's farm lay
like n dot In this, and over everything ii
Sabbath quiet brooded, but here the
spark could be struck which should - I
South Africa n/lre. They felt the do
light of power, a sense of danger ami
daring leaped In their blo.nl. and they
rode straight forward resolutely.
Zwagor's place was built up In n way
usual to that region. A stone wall en
circled tho squatty Dutch buildings
and served to keep the calves In the
front doorynrd. A fence might have
been easier, but Zwngcr's great grand
fathers had managed It this way, and
whnt had been good enough for them
Was good enough for Zwager. They
Were admitted through tho gate by n
lazy Knfllr boy and, riding up to the 1
house, beheld the owner.
Before the door In the sunshlno sat
an old and grizzled Boer?a Boer of tho
great trok. He stared nt them fotA.
moment silently and then again turrtfdk
his dull blue eyes upon tho
view. But after soiuo rollcetion he
removed Ids pipe uud asked them brief*
ly. "What do \ < ??i want:"
"We want some forage for our horses
first tiling." Burton replied, and tin
two demounted. Kwngcr reflected
some more ami thou announced, "Von
can't have it.
"<>ii, we eou't, ob?" remarked Phil
lips. "Mnybo that isn't for you to
say.' The correction appeared to be
lost upon old Zwager. 11<- sat still ami
gazed across the plain toward the blue
north word as though hw expected
something favorable to come f BO in that
directlou. I'or years oud years tho
older Boers bud bceu wont to think ol
that free up country, the untrueked
wilderness which could always be their
refuge when the nuuoylug uproar of n
rapid civilization came too near. But
iioihiiig could come out of it now ex
cept danger, and they were cut off
from it forever as surely as from the
him- Ben across which their forefathers
had wandered two centuries before for
a place in which to stagnate comforta
bly. Old Zwager may have known
this much of history from the home
spun traditions passed down from sire
to son -stories of old treks and hat lies
for one's own idea of things, dared by
men of a stubborn, fanatic breed, like
the Itoundhcnds of old Hnglnud or the
Puritans of the new. But lOngland and
America had gone forward somewhat,
ami two of their representatives, well
up to date, stood now before this old
man of the people who had stopped
for two centuries, and the)' hardly
knew how to take him.
"We want some forage 1" Burton
roared, with ferocious emphasis.
Old ZWttger considered 'his demand
once more as though It bad been a new
one. "Von can't have It," he then re
plied, with undiplomatic clearness, "be
cause you are lOngllsh schelms" (ras
cals).
Phillips clinched his list and walked
lip to hltU. "Yes; HOW'S your chance."
neournged Burton. Tho liailir, safe
upon the wall, was apparently the only
wVtncss, and he, being only a nigger
and untaught, seemed to wonder that
men of those races should fall to light
ing. Phillips put his list close m> to
the stolid face, then look it away again.
Always did understand that you
Americans wero nn uncertain set."
complained the Englishman, lie strode
up to the Boer btmsolf and delivered
nn ultimatum. "You old. dense, beast
ly, uncivil mule," ho thundered, "tell
the boy there to get that forage! D'j'OU
henr?"
The ancient man novor noticed them
They both perceived with ease that he
thought they were afraid of him. "Oh,
before I'd stand that!" Phillips taunted
his companion Presently Zwngi r ai ose
to his fret. "You must now go aw a;
from here." he proclaimed calmly
"Your language la not hive the Scrip
tures." lie went and picked up .
heavy stick ami stlflly advanced up a
l-iiom.
They stood ami watched him eomi
the two strapping Saxons, ami i .?
changed a furtive ghrtice, Then of .
suddeii they broke in Hill retreat. Movei
by the same impulse, ihej slunk bnol
to their horses and mounted without i
word. Willem! a word ihey left belli .
them /.wafer's place, ami for half
milw across tic veldt they rod.' a louj
way apart and would not took at ea? I
other. finally they pulled up, am
something had to he said.
"Er ah most disgusting failure:
the Englishman r< mm In d.
"I couldn't do It," the Amerte.'in re
plied, "because" he stole a glance a
bis companion i ml read hi Ids < yes ai
answering horror; it was the awftl
horror and hatred of their race i n
"goody g.ly talk" "tU'CUIO'e," Ilk
cried triumphal.i ly. "I Ihollglil Iber
might he some more Boers hidden i:
the barn."
"Just SO," assented the Pollen in re
lief ami camen little nearer. "My u.wi
idea exactly." They rode along I gcili
or in dejection, knowing more ubou
themselves than previously Ihey luu
known. Around I hem the very veld
seemed to be laughing over something
ami as they approached the camp ngali
suddenly they both laughed too.
"Couldn't he done," Burton explain
ed brlclty to the captain, "App *. yoi
know, that then- was a eoueeilli -'. fore
In the neighborhood." The ex vendei
of medicines was listening and prompt
|y expressed his triumph. "Yah," cried
be. "I told you so! Men from Kugln ml
and America can't go to Johanncsl nr?
that way."
Hours afterward they left the eiimi
and took the road toward Klerksburg
They Stopped (Slice III the plllill ttlll
looked behind them at the border line
and all was quiet along it. Then tin
Englishman, doubtless with his thought!!
upon old /.wager, said. " That war wll
come, though, as sure as the sun Is uy
there."
"Or as sure as there Is gold in Jolian
nesburg," the other agreed, "but II
won't he us that will start It. We IWi
weren't made, I guess, to do dil'tj
work."
lie flicked Ids horse again, and, grin
nlng cheerfully, the unsuccessful ones
rode westward In the sunshine.
Mrs. .lames Mills, of Woodham,
(>nt., who recently celebrated her one
hundred ami thirteenth birthday, will
\isit the Buffalo exposition with hci
son, a sprightly youth of 7?;.
The |K)pular idea expressed iIt ti c
phrase, "the art of self-defense," shows
the opinion I'int the c.-.u f m it
has to defend hitusell from are visible
and external. But the real danger of
every man is from minute and oft! n in
visible foes. In the ail we breathe and
the water we drink are countless minute
organisms leagued ngiiiist the health ol
til's bod).
The one defense against these enemies
is to keep the blood pure. Dr. Plerce's
Golden Medical Discovery thoroughly
purifies the blood, removing poisonous
substances and accretions. When the
blood is pure there In no harborage for
the germs of disease which find a lodg
ing only when the blood Is Impure and
corrupt.
"i consider your' Golden Medical Discovery'
one of the l>c*t medicines on tii? face <>f iIr
earth," writes Mr.'Wm, t'toeter, of Redonk,
Kontgomciy Co., Iowa. "While In the *.tuth
weit, ihr?-?- venrt ngo, i got poisoned with pol
son Ivy. TnS poison settled pi my blood and
the horrors I suffered cannot be told In word*
I thought I would go cru/v. I tried different
kin.I i of inedlcint, fried dllTestnt den lors, bill
?II the relief they coufd give me wm to make my
pocketl>ook lighter. I then began taking Dr.
Plerce's Golden Medical OUoovfry. Took fonr
bottle* without rHlcf. Kept taking It. I took
JblsII ten liottle* and Rot entirely cured."
flttk Piercc's Pleasant Pellets cure con
CUARI,i;STON AND
THE TIGIvRS.
Mayor Smyth's Statement as to
Difficulties oi" Enforcing the Dis
pensary Law.
The State hoard of control In hi a
sptciol ? ?slon on the 10th in-t in re
gard to tho blind tigers in Charlodou.
al which Mayor Smyth and Chief JJoyle I
were present by invitation to show
raise why tho dispensary profits for
Uharlcsloii should not Ik- withhold on ?
acc< uni ol tin- non-enforcement of Iho
dispensary law. Nothing startling
was brought out and tho intimations I
oi int> resliug dovelopmcul8 <li?l not ,
matei iali/.o.
1 In- proci oding was opened with the !
reading of the hoard's resolution.
Ch; iunan Williams staled that olllcild- ;
|y in it um nit tally it bad boon reported {
to the loud that things wore running
wide opou in Charleston. 'The tuoiii
b< I'm knew of the violations in Charles
ton and they wished to hear about the
failure of the municipal authorities to
enforce the law.
Mayor Smyth Iben rend a statement
he had prepared, lie roforrcd to the
P? ciliar dillleullies surrounding the ou
I'orcemcul of tin-law in Charleston.
Its geographical position made it hu
ll ssible lor an army of constables aud
polici lo strictly enlorco tin; law there.
The same conditions had boon ap
parent under the inctl'OpolitillU police
system. I!" had Oil To rood the law
with his police to the liest of his ability.
Uo related the dillleullies encountered
by uniloinnd men in endeavoring to
locale llgers, The police, he. said,
wore specially directed by oidiuuucu
p. enforce the dispensary law. The
Oil) had tried detectives, I.til their
names sn< n became known. This was
iho Win Iho niltlKS Ol the same men
iisually appeared U8 witnesses in dis
pensary cases.
M.iyoi Smyth said that a uniformed
policeman couldn't act ti|i positive cvi
il< ncc against a blind tiger denier, be
cause In- was no! allowed lo diitik; il
1)0 did drink and ko Uslilicd ilO would
be discharged. Ilet.ee bis testimony i
all ng thai lim; could not In' obtained.
The very appearance oi a uniformed
policeman was a warning to Illicit
dealers, so thai they would he pro
pal v d lor their coming.
Another reason why the policemen,
of Choi lesion cannot obsoluUly en
force the law i- from the fact that in
tin city there ar< sixty-nine miles of
street. These are patrolled by ouly
cighty-llvo men. Hall of them ate on
at night and hall in day, and ttlklug
the sick list, there i> gcuornlly only
about thirty or tllilly-liVO policemen
on the streets. This gives each man
over two miles to look aller. As is
well known Charleston's population i
largely made up of in iroes ami there
is a constant gtowth of that population
through negroes coming to the city
who arc of a lawless character. The
-mall police force have these people to
attend lo and if they did not it would
he greatly lo iho deleriiueiil of Iho
I once and lie' good older of the city.
Nevertheless strict orders have been
given bj the mayor and the chief that
policeman must r< port all illicit sales
of whiskey and to co-opornlo with the
constables in every instance.
Kcco mixing the f iel that uniformed
men could not properly cany out I tie
law, the administration of Mayor
Picken appointed three ipecial police
men who weit- to he in cili/.cus'
clothes. This number was later in
creased io ten, Their special duty
was to look nftt r violations of the dis
pensary laws. This was under the
niclropoh'aii pohco system, and they
ens' tin taspayi rs of Charleston ?0,
(.100. Notwithstanding tho ret:, ids
-how that Illicit sale of whiskey wellt
tiuhi along.
Alter 1 went 111 as mayor and as
-timed churge of the police, tin. ' r the
law I Could ollly appoint til 100 such
detectives. This 1 did, Hut they
-? on became known to tho dealers and
their work didn't aim nut to much.
Then the appointment of these de
tectives was U || to iho Chief of police,
and tin- ntnyoi I'.imseif did not km.w
their uatuoH, nor did they appear on
the pay r< Iis. Thej were appointed
even befon tho terms of the othei do
lectives bad expire d, so that no one
should know Ihom. Yet of nil Iho
CI130S made cut !)\ lie in none were
considered by the gtnud jOry. Cliiel
Uoylo and myself have honestly tried
to enforce tho law, and l.'.."> cases have
been sent up to the circuit court.
At tin- point, Mr. I lakes wanted to
kuoiV whether any eases had come up
In loir Hit city court, and whether any
ordinance had hi on passed by the city
against ||ie illicit sah- of whiskey.
Mayoi - mvlh replied that the juris
diction of ihe recorder's court was
quite limited. Il could not hear eases
iif burglary, for instance.
Mr. Dtlkes insisted that all cities
had been instructed, under Governor
Tillmnn's administration, lo pass or
(lilinilCOS against the illicit sale id
whiskey, and ho insisted that Charles
ton had .-neb an ordinance.
Mayor .Smyth rcplhd pleasantly thai
ho had -unlit d the ordinances of Char*
lesion quite thoroughly ami ho knew
(hero w as no special ordinance on the
subject, a- the State law fully covered
the matter.
Mr. Dukes insisted that all cities
had passed such laws.
Wiicroupt n Mayor Smyth asked
i wht liier there was nu b an ordinance
. in Columbia ami whclhoi the police
? Ulmet d the law in this oil v.
< bnirmnn Williams stated Ihnl \w
had In urd thai Columbia had a special
ordinam.I) I ho Bllbjccl, ami ho bail
inen informed Hint lliu law was en
forced hero, in pail nt least.
[As a mailer of fact, Columbia has
mi speoiul ordinance <>n liquor Belling
bcyon.l the one which existed beforu
i,hc dispensary law wont into effeci j
Mr, Williams asked whether the
mayor could i?ivo any instnnco where
.1 State law was not enforce <l by special
ordinance.
Mayor Smyth replied thai ihe Stale
l.iw absolutely prohibited Hi I sail- ni
ILlylbltlg Oil lIlO Si'.hath, ycl l>V or
?nuance in ? hnrlcsinu milk and lo.e
ami lud! and sods, wnlci could he
|i golly si.i<l Mlihoul pohjc interference,
Mr. hukis indeed whether I ho city
? ? 11w'i? ? noi lo i>:iss a law against tho
mile <-l liquor nnd liavu the violators
u i''i ii the rccordor'8 court If tho ciiy
? Mends wnnli ' io uuforce the law?
May01 Smyih said he doubled the
legality of suc h o law. The rccordci
can't fry n man lor burglary and sonic,
ni her clinics. Mis jurisdiction is ex
Ircmcly limned, ami an effort was
made to enlarge il at the lust session,
hut it didn't go through.
Mr. William-', ami later on Mr.
Dukes, asked the minor whether or
no! ti c city of Charleston did not
ih initiate the po Hies ol the county,
the Idea bolng that II tho people want
0(1 to enforce the law they c ould secure
juries who would do their duly.
Mayor Smyth ropliod that tho city
government cd Charleston had ab
solutely nothing to do witli the county
or the State courts held in the city.
Mr. Dukes asked whether Charles
ton city could not do something polili
cully to force the appointment of a
jury whlcli would lo its duly.
Mayor Smyth said that so far us
politics is coucoruod the people oi
UliurlesloD ruled the county, but that
jury commissioners were nppoiulod
from Columbia, aud with that the city
;ov? rnuicnl hau nothing whutovor to
do, nor did any man in il attempt lo
? xorciso any intlucucc.
Mayor Smyth then proceeded to
lead Ins blUtOtUOUl furlher, in whi.h
lie blamed the non-enforcement of the
law on the county. Who may be I'O
.-pon-iblc for it he did UOt stale, lie
showed clearly that the grand jury
would not bring in true hills, though
indisputable evidence was given the
jury bj police ollicurs in uniform ami
oy detectives. He suid the city gov
ernment could nol justly be held ac.
countable lor such a condition ol
allau-; thai Chiefs Seilcis and Howie,
w ho Dad been in ( harlestoii, Would bear
him out in the Statement that the'
police force always co-operated with
the constables.
Chief Howie, stationed in Charles
ton, was in the building at the '.line,
and at Mayor Smyth's request he was
, culled in. The mayor read over the
: ttlteilieut he had made about the po
lice co-operating with the constables
and Mr. llowio positively substantiated
the statement.
Tue mayor concluded by calling
upon the board to consider the fucti
presented to it, and adding that both
himself and Chief Boyle would be
??lad to receive any suggestions from
the hoard as to how they could do
better.
There was much discussion a- to the
udvi ability and the effect of p.ssiug a
dispensary ordinance and having the
police bring cases before the recorder
lor trial. Mayor Smyth made iho
statement that the pro tils to the city
had never exceeded $14,000.
Chief Doyle "culled a spado a spado" j
and lold the board tbal no power could
absolutely on force tho dispensary law
in Charleston, lie passed over with
contempt the charge thai ibe police
had l" on ''lamed." He said that the
dispensaries and beer privileges sup
plied hair the blind ligcra in Charles
ton.
Tho directors of the Stale dispen
sary passed the resolution which lakes
away from the city of Charleston what
ever protil8 may acci uc I rom Ihe opera
tion of the local dispensaries. 'This
resolution will continue of effect until
the city authorities indicate that tin
illicit sale of liquor is suppressed?if
not eradicated. Mr Williams olVcicd
the following as the reply of the board
to the municipal authorities of Char
leston :
??The Slate hoard of directors having
carefully considered the defense of the
eil) government of Charleston, pre
sented through the honorable mayor,
Mr. Smyth, and Chief of I'olicu lloyle,
?to show causo why tin dispensary
! proiils accruing to said city should not
in: withheld under section ol the dis
peusnry law, to be used tor Um butter
cniorcemeiit of said law," liuda as |'ol
; iows:
"First, That defendniils laded to
show, and in fact lid milted, that the
dispensary law was not properly en
forced in ihe city of Charleston.
"Second, That defendants succeeded
apparently in establishing the faci tit it
the county government of Charleston
18 largely rorpoustblo lor ihe non-en
forconieni of the dispensary law in the
city <>l Clint lesion.
" Thud, rtial ihe city government
? (through its representatives) admits
its primary responsibility for such
failure in that council has failed lo
enact an ordinance forbidding the il
licit sale of liquors, providing adequate
penally lor the violation of such ordi
nance, lo he imposed by the recoidcr,
in case of coaviclions; therefore bo it
"Resolved, That the dispensary
profits accruing to the said city >i
Cbuilesion are hereby withheld tobe
used for the pay <d' Stale constables for
ilie bellei enforcement ol the dispen
sary 1 iw in the city of Charleston, un
til such limo as the Slate hoard in i\
be convinced that the city authorities
havo discharged every obligation rest
ing upon llioin,
"Resolved, Thai tho < Iharlost >n
county board oi control is hereby in
structed io remit to the Slate treasurei
tin- portion of the proIiis that would
go to the city of Cnarleston, but loi
the passage of the above resolution,
ami that a ci p\ her? of bo sent i?> the
mayor ami chairman of the county
board of control."
The resolution under which die
State hoard requested Ihe Charleston
otlicials to appear hi fore llic hoard was
adopti d July Hd. It reads; "Ke
solved, That the nay or and chief of
police of tin; city of Charleston are
hereby neemded the privileges, and are
mi requested to appear at the ollico <d
He-state board of director* in Co
lumbia, S. C, on the tOtll in-t., at 10
o'clock a. in., lo show cause ii any
ihey have, why the dispensary proIiis
accruing to said city should not lie
withheld under section '.) of the dis
pensary law. 'o he used foi the b?lter
enfoicement ol kid law."
The hoard get" authority for iis
action Irom the loi owing section of
dispensary law: --All proIiis, after
paying ait expenses o the county dis
O -A.? 1? O' . 'i~ I J\..
Ream tho _/} 1: " '<??'? 1 ' ,; ^w WjWg Bou?M
pousary, shall bo paid one half lo the
municipal corporation lo which it may
i>?- located, such settlements lo ho
nude quarterly: Provided, That if
the authorilh a of any town or city in
the judgment of the state hoard of
coutrol do nipt enforce the law, Iho
State bo nd inav withhold the part go
lug to said town or City, and U80 it to
pay State constables or el-e turn it into
tin county treasury."
It has boon known for BOIUO time
that Joseph Cook, the founder of the
" Boston Monday Lectureship," was
in failing health, and his death on the
2?th u i. at Tbondoroga, N. Y., was
not a surprise Twenty years ago he
wa< read and quoted in every part of
the country, and, for tin- matter of that.
in every part of the Kllglish-speakiog
woi d. ICtulowed with immense phy
sieal vigor, and with an nggrossivo in
tellectual euergy, he was a stout and I
Stubborn defender of orthodox views:
in religion. Ills loarniug was copious
am! his oloquencQ had a commanding
I'iug about it. On tlit' platform lie had
la most COtnmauding manner. lie
made a distinct and valuable c ntribu
i lion to the religious lifo of his times.
The highost telegraph poles hi the
United States have just been put Up ill
Beaumont Texas. So far as known
they tue tho highost of any in the
world, the top being l?O foot ab vc the
ground. They were creeled on the
opposite banks Ol the Nodus Kiver by
the Western Union Telegraph com
pany in order lo string its cable aeioss
Iho it ream. The span is 1 M fool in
|i llgtll. '1'bis height is necessary lo
adinil the passage of slops through tho
druW-bridgO, their masts being 1 -
foot tall and more.
Tho Society of Iho Daughters of Iho
American liovolulion wan organized in
Washington, l>. C, October 11, 181)0.
An\ woman may bo eligible ror inoiii
hi r hip who >s IS yearn old ami <1. -
eccnded rrom an ancestor who, ** with
unfailing loyalty, rendered material
aid to iho cause of independence as a
leeogi?/.ed patriot, as soldier or sailor,
or as civil (din er in one of the several
colonies or States, ol the United Col
onies or Slates/'
Since the Louisiana and Texas fann
ers learned to raise nco by irrigation
they have invested 85,000,000 in
1 ,oS0 miles ol e.uiids, capa'dc of tl >od?
lug ?00,000 acres, and spcnl $1,700,
000 in building thirty modern rice
nulls. Under the new syst? in tho rice
lands pay a nel prolll of :f l? an acre.
Summer tourist tickets are now on
sale to Amoville and Western North
Curo!in*i mountain resorts.
- 11. ry Davenport and B/ell Harvey,
two illdustrloils white*moil living throe
miles from Williamston, took shelter u:t
der a pi te treo during a thunder storm
irid both wore instantly killed by light
ning Tiio i> -dies wore carried lo J)r.
Prank Laudor's residence, and every of
foil was made to revive them. Daven
port was forty one years old, and leaves
i wife and eight children, Harvey was
I we,illy eight, and leaves a wife aud
three children,
?The big Ii;- tree, forty four feet in
circumference, which grow one mile
west of Ar it gton, Wash , has been cut
? 'own in.! iiinn foot of tho base, with a
cut foi the Uoor and another for the
roof, nas b'-en shipped lo Bverett to bo
converted into an olllco for Com at is
sioiior Job nel n ?t the Pan rluiorlcan
Kx posit ion Tho floor part is fifteen
foot in di unotcr and the roof lOj foot in
diainoi?i
Long Hi
air
" At out a year ago my hair wi
coming out very fast, so 1 bought
a bottle of Aycr's Hair Vigor. It
stopped the fallint? and made my
hair grow very rapidly, until now it
is 4 5 inches in L*u -Mrs. A.
Boydston, Aichig ii, Kans.
There's another hunger
than that of the stomach.
Hair hunger, for instance.
Hungry hair needs food,
needs hair vigor?Aycr's.
This is why we say that
Aycr's Hair Vigor always
restores color, and makes
the hair prow long and
heavy. si.oo a bottle. All druggists.
if _\ ,.>r ilruinii?i' cannot supply y<
scud um 0110 il'illar ami wo win oxprcsn
you a I tot 1 lo. Ito sum and ptvo tho nanu
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